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Thus ended the five-year rule of the army marshal who led the 1970 coup that sent Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile in Peking and turned his kingdom into a republic. Sihanouk was mercurial and eccentric. Lon Nol, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke four years ago, was withdrawn and mystic. As Lon Nol's regime became tainted with corruption, Sihanouk managed to ingratiate himself with the Khmer Rouge. The Prince may yet make a comeback in Cambodia, but most likely as a figurehead under the tight control of the Khmer Rouge...
...their guns slung carelessly over their shoulders, crowded the streets; some of them were raucously drunk. One came up and put his hand against my chest and started to push, looking into my eyes without saying a word until his friends led him off. At the harbor, the troops withdrawn from Hue disembarked in mixed units, arriving in the confused state of a total rout. Enlisted men and officers alike dispensed with the niceties of rank or discipline. No one saluted, no one marched or regrouped. They just got off and wandered into town with their friends...
...joined by monsters capable of carrying as much as 1 million tons of oil. Yet suddenly this prospect is fading. Dozens of supertankers are idle, and others are being laid up almost daily. Last week four 370,000-ton tankers on order for construction at Norwegian shipyards were withdrawn, bringing that nation's cancellation total to 26. For many of the high-rolling ship owners who gambled heavily on it, the great supertanker boom has turned into a painful superbust...
...sell everything she owned And froze up inside. I became withdrawn... The only thing I knew to do was to Keep on keepin...
Fireworks erupted at the end of the meeting, however, when Alan E. Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, brought up the issue of reinstituting a limited form of master's choice. Although he has now withdrawn the suggestion he proposed in the meeting, the CHUL will still convene Wednesday to talk about the issue of master's choice and other House criteria selection mechanisms...